by Marcela Said

Synopsis

Manena is a very determined teenager, and the darling daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacations to a single obsession: the extermination of carp fish that invade his artificial lagoon.

As he resorts to more and more extreme methods, Manena experiences her first love, deception; and discovers a world that silently co-exists alongside her own: that of the Mapuche Indian workers who claim access to these lands… and who stand up to her father.

“A bourgeois Chilean family spend summer at their lakeside estate in this atmospheric drama… Marcela Said’s film is full of arresting images of Chilean nature [while] the story is shot through with class and racial friction…”—Hollywood Reporter